Springer v. United States, 102 U.S. 586 (1881), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the Federal income tax imposed under the Revenue Act of 1864.
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“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)